#612 Seeing Through Water- Fatima Shaik
This is truly a story unique to New Orleans. Sister Mary Patrick is having trouble adjusting to her life as a nun in the sweltering south. She is from an Irish Catholic Boston family and was hoping the church sent her out west. Now she teaches children in a town where she feels completely out of place.
Making life hard for her is a child, Pierre, that just cant seem to calm down. He is disruptive and remorseless. When she asks for the child to be removed from class, neither the headmaster nor the child’s grandmother agrees with the change. Pierre likes the Sister and he acts the calmest in her class. One day, in a rain storm, Pierre leads the class in second line parade in a pipe-piper like exercise in disruption.
Disruptive children don’t necessarily mean bad children. Especially in a town like New Orleans, originality and creativity should be celebrated not restricted. Sometimes when the rain falls, all there is to do is start a parade.
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